GERALD ELLIS, U.E.
Groesbeek Canadian War Cemetery in the Netherlands contains the graves of over 2500 soldiers from across Canada killed in action during World War II, including Gerald Austin Ellis , U.E. He was a native of Digby, Nova Scotia, and descended from United Empire Loyalist Adam Bower, who arrived at Shelburne in 1783. Gerald Ellis appears listed on an Honour Roll that hangs in Grace United Church in Digby which he attended. Honour Roll The Canadians buried in the Groesbeek Canadian War Cemetery died during the advance from the River Seine to Germany. Three centuries after Adam Bower, UE, the ancestor of Gerald Ellis, was born in Germany and moved to America, his descendant returned with the Canadian Army and died from fighting in 1942. Johann Adam Bauer, later known as Adam Bower, was born 13 November 1724 in Hottenbach, Rheinland, Germany. He settled in South Carolina in 1764, and when the American Revolution began, he joined the British forces with his tw...